This pursuit of civic humanism linked Renaissance Italy to ancient Greece. Renaissance scholars believed active participation in public life was essential for the state’s well-being. They studied and ...

He claims “liberal, humanistic values have their deepest roots in Christian humanism, not secular humanism.” He continues, “I’m not sure our democracy can survive without Christianity.” It was during ...

In this way, the half-revealed Leda of Skanderbeg's seal becomes a kind of messenger of a powerful social emancipation, when it is known that the society of Skanderbeg's time was emerging from the ...

The fourteenth-century Florentine poet Francesco Petrarch triggered the explosion of knowledge known today as Renaissance humanism with his discovery of Livy’s monumental history of Rome and the ...

THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS, Petrarch has been my field, my niche, the key to whatever career success I have had. Petrarch, born Francesco Petrarca. V anguard of the Renaissance. The first humanist, the ...